Maharashtras COVID-19 tally mounts to 90K, 120 fresh deaths

Maharashtra recorded 120 Covid19 fatalities as the state crossed the 90K cases mark overtaking China 90 days after the first case was detected here on March 9 officials said here on Tuesday The state on Tuesday recorded 120 deaths marking an increase of 11 over Mondays 109 besides 2259 new Covid19 casesMaharashtra recorded 120 Covid19 fatalities as the state crossed the 90K cases mark overtaking China 90 days after the first case was detected here on March 9 officials said on TuesdayCovid_19india Covid_19 pictwittercomtc8uJoPbLImdash IANS Tweets ians_india June 9 2020The previous threedigit highs recorded in the state include 103 deaths June 2 122 June 3 123 June 4 139 June 5 120 June 6 109 June 8 and 120 Tuesday This comes to roughly one death every 12 minutes and an average 94 new cases notched every hour in the stateMaharashtra has been recording 75plus fatalities and new patients over 2K daily for the past 14 days with the previous singleday highest figure of 3041 infections notched on May 24 In fact the state has been notching new cases at a rate higher than the United KingdomWith 120 fatalities the states death toll has touched 3289 while the total number of Coronavirus patients increased from Mondays 88528 to zoom past the 90K mark and touch 90787 on Tuesday The health department said that of the total number of cases declared till date 44849 were active cases as on Tuesday increasing by 475 over Mondays 44374The state has recorded a handsome recovery rate of 4696 per cent and a mortality death rate of 360 per cent Of the total 120 fatalities on Tuesday 58 were recorded in Mumbai alone taking the citys death toll up from Mondays 1702 to 1760 now while the number of Covid19 positive patients here went up by 1015 cases to touch 51100 nowBesides Mumbais 58 deaths there were 20 fatalities in Thane MiraBhayander Thane Navi Mumbai 16 in Pune 10 in Aurangabad 3 each in Nashik and Raigad 2 each in Palghar Solapur Akola and Nagpur and one each in Ratnagiri and Amravati The victims comprised 80 men and 40 women and nearly 76 per cent of them suffered from other serious ailments such as diabetes hypertension heart problems and asthmaOn the positive side a total of 1663 fully cured patients returned home on Tuesday taking the number of those discharged to 42638 Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday inaugurated a Covid19 testing lab built at a cost of Rs 107 crore at the Ratnagiri Civil Hospital taking the number of such testing facilities to 85 in the stateMeanwhile Mumbai Mayor Kishor Pednekar has ordered a probe into a bizarre case of an 80year Covid19 man who went lsquomissing from the BMCs Dr B R Ambedkar Shatabdi Hospital Kandivali and a couple of days later his body was found in Borivali Pune Police Commissioner K Venkatesham launched an educational shortfilm lsquoCovid ki bimaari se ladhiye Bimaar se nahi along with ABIL Managing Director Amit BhonsaleThe MMR Thane Division continued to cause grave concerns with 83 new Covid19 deaths pulling up the toll to 2216 and taking the number of positive cases to 68299 on Tuesday the highest in the country Though trailing a distant third after MMR Pune Divisions fatalities touched 568 besides 12199 patients Since June 1 Thane district with 14063 cases and 355 fatalities has zoomed past Pune districtThe next major region of concern is Nashik Division with 248 deaths and 3349 positive cases followed by Aurangabad Division with 118 fatalities and 2586 cases and Akola Division with 64 deaths and 1424 cases Theres Latur Division with 16 deaths and 498 cases Kolhapur Division with 26 deaths and 1358 patients and finally Nagpur Division with 14 deaths including one from Madhya Pradesh and 996 casesMeanwhile the number of people sent to homequarantine increased from Mondays 564736 to 568073 on Tuesday while those in institutional quarantine went down by 290 to 26470 now In a relieving news for the patients there are as many as 75930 beds currently available for Covid19 quarantine in the stateThe states containment zones increased from 3510 to 3750 on Tuesday while 18994 health teams have fanned out around the state to survey a population of around 6916 lakh till dateCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever